12/10/2010
Case 3 Cargo Liability - Warehouse A member's warehouse was severly damaged during a storm, when strong winds blew off part of the roof and caused the remainder to collapse. Cargo stored on the member's facility - both...
Case 3 Equipment and Cargo Liability A Member who owns and operates tank containers, is insured in the transport operator category of the Club for both cargo liabilities and equipment loss or damage. Two tank...
Case 4 General Average/Salvage and Carrying Equipment The container ship of a Member was struck ob the port side by a bulk carrier while anchoring. The Member had 314 containers on board, of which 32 were constructive...
Case 4 Ship Damage While discharging a container ship, a member's crane driver moved his crane without lifting the gantry. The gantry hit and partly demolished the ship's radar mast, radio antenna and various other...
Case 5 Customs Duty A terminal operator member received two container loads said to contain cigarettes, to be loaded on one of his customer's ships, Because of the sensitive nature of the cargo, the containers were...
Case 5 Typhoon Maemi, Korea The severest typhoon since records began 100 years ago struck Korea on 12 September 2003. This caused considerable damage to the port facilities and operators' equipment at a port and other...
Case 6 Equipment A multi-purpose container carrier (ro/ro and cellular) was loading containers to the ro/ro deck over a stern three-quarter ramp. A container lifter, insured by the Club as ship's equipment, was...
Case 6 Liability - Death and Bodily Injury A terminal member was discharging bundles of steel tubes at night. The bundles were stowed on the main vehicle deck of a ro/ro vessel and were being moved by fork-lift trucks...
07/10/2010
Dr Risto Talas, Research Fellow at University of Hull Logistics Institute, writes:
The FIATA Advisory Body Dangerous Goods (ABDG) has provided an advice concerning the proposed amendments of the ADR (European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road) and the RID (Regulation concerning the carriage of Dangerous Goods by rail) that are due to enter into force on 1 January 2011. There are general transitional measures until 30 June 2011 with the possibility to apply for longer transitional measures for specific technical issues.
Based on an analysis revealing a number of major structural failures in port equipment in recent years, Laurence Jones, TT Club's Global Risk Assessment Director, stresses how essential it is for operators of ports and cargo handling facilities to establish a regular sequence of maintenance and thorough examination of all the lifting appliances it utilises.
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